DorosPolykarpou

Rule of Law… depending on who you are! Remember the serious tractor accident last May in the village of Kapileio? Ø The injured worker was an undocumented migrant from Vietnam. Ø The Police not only showed remarkable “understanding,” but dragged out the investigation for as long as possible, giving time for “other solutions” to be found. Ø The Labour Inspection Department assigned the investigation to an officer who is away on leave — perhaps hoping that, here too, time might eventually provide a “solution”… Ø The employer, a local powerbroker with access to the government and the governing-opposition party, found the solution. And just like that — no harm, no foul: The migrant was apparently not his employee at all. He simply decided, entirely on his own initiative, to start the tractor and ended up seriously injuring his legs — presumably out of his love for the trees… Nevertheless, out of the goodness of his heart, the employer supported him and, among other things, bought him a ticket so that today he could “return” to Vietnam… And now that the migrant — and the only eyewitness — is leaving, the investigations by both the Police and the Labour Inspection Department will presumably be… quietly filed away! @picum_ngo